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The Week in Weird (Zionist Vultures Edition)
By Tony Deconinck - AOL NewsHave you ever put a hex on your congressperson? Have you ever captured a weaponized raptor? Have you ever dressed up a topless Barbie in a fetish BDSM outfit? Well, maybe you haven't, but keep reading and you'll find someone below who has. With the new year, there's a whole new batch of weird stories already hitting the wires. Now that we're at the end of the week, it's time to look back on some of the strangest stories you might have missed. If you think you're really smart, you can jump ahead and take the Fark Weird News Quiz without this little recap. If not, let's get started. Next Up: ...
Artist Gives Barbie Nipples ... and a Bad Reputation
By Larry Knowles - AOL NewsPuberty can trigger erratic behavior, and for Barbie, Mattel's iconic doll and vision of the feminine ideal, it's been a particularly unsettled time. After being bestowed with a pair of nipples, the 11.5-inch plastic figurine flung off her underwear, ran off with a skeleton biker and eventually hanged herself. The rub, of course, is that Barbie did none of these things -- at least as far as Mattel is concerned. The narrative is part of an alternative reality that San Francisco-area artist LaVonne Sallee has strung together for the notoriously proper doll. LaVonne Sallee Barbie ...
Barbie, Journalism's New Ambassador (and Badly Needed Savior?)
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailyJournalism has needed a global ambassador. Now it has one -- Barbie. Yes, Barbie has transformed into a news anchor. For the first time in the doll's 51-year history, Mattel asked consumers to pick Barbie's new adventure from five careers – architect, computer engineer, environmentalist, news anchor and surgeon. Forget Barbie designing her own dream home or saving the planet. No, Barbie needs to be in the middle of the action, and journalism certainly provides that some days. In her new incarnation, the doll -- looking like she just returned from Malibu -- wears a pink suit with ...
Christina Hendricks: Full-Figured Never Looked Better
By Donna Trussell - Politics DailyClothes look good on thin bodies. But thin bodies naked? Not so much. Naked full bodies is another matter. Or near-naked, a la actress Christina Hendricks in a corset on the cover of New York Magazine. Hendricks, a breakout star of AMC's hit show "Mad Men," is undeniably beautiful. She's also a different body type than we're used to seeing in the glamor factories of Los Angeles and New York. But then "Mad Men" is a period drama, set half a century ago. It may be relevant that most fashion designers are gay men. Thin women look more male than their voluptuous counterparts in the general ...
Holiday Shoppers Go Cuckoo for Zhu Zhus
By Steve Pendlebury - AOL News(Nov. 25) -- A robotic hamster is the gift most likely to cause a Black Friday stampede this year. Zhu Zhu Pets have been universally declared the hottest and hardest-to-get toy of this holiday season. Shipments of the pink-nosed critters sell out within hours of arrival at stores. "It reminds me of the Furby craze back in the late '90s," said Jim Silver, editor-in-chief of TimetoPlayMag.com. "People are actually camping out at the stores waiting for deliveries." The interactive, animatronic fuzzballs move around unpredictably and make cute sounds, just like the real rodents but without ...
Sometimes, a Doll is Just a Doll
By Lizzie Skurnick - Politics DailyOnce a year, usually around my birthday, my mother laments my childhood Barbie trauma. "I should have bought it for you," she says glumly. "You wanted it, and I should have bought it." The CNN story of Stacy McBride-Irby, who created a new line of black Barbies so that her daughter could have a doll that looked like her, did remind me of how jealous I'd been of my friend Tootie's Barbie, and how, when my mother refused to buy me the doll, I went straight to the store and spent the $4.95 myself. (Where had I gotten $4.95? I was 6. I have no idea.) But it also reminded me of something our ...
What Women Can Learn From Malibu Stacy
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics Daily"Math class is tough," a talking Barbie doll once reminded little girls. ...
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